{"id":6599,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/unfulfilled-expectations\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:29","slug":"unfulfilled-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/unfulfilled-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfulfilled Expectations!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Gillmartin&#8217;s Sunday evening song leader carefully and thoroughly prepared the congregation to learn a new chorus: &#8220;I Am the God that Healeth Thee,&#8221; by Don Moen.  With a certain flourish, he pressed the PLAY button on the tape deck &#8230; suddenly, the velvet-like tones of Dean Martin filled the sanctuary with &#8220;When the moon hits your eye, like a biga pizza pie &#8230; that&#8217;s amore!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Life is like that &#8230; we all get lulled into false expectations and are surprised by the results.<\/p>\n<p>Martha expected Jesus&#8217; support but was humbled instead. [Luke 10:38-42]  The Pharisees expected to trap the Lord with their conundrums but had the tables were turned on them instead.  The lame man expected silver or gold but received healing instead. [Acts 3:1-8]  And the rich man, because of his worldly success and wealth, expected to see heaven only to awaken to his worst nightmare. [Luke 16:19-31]  Another rich man expected to live out his retirement satisfied with his good fortune, never suspecting his soul would be required of him that very night. [Luke 12:16-23]<\/p>\n<p>The redeemed will do well not to count on anything this side of heaven &#8230; except that the Lord God Almighty will keep his word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gillmartin&#8217;s Sunday evening song leader carefully and thoroughly prepared the congregation to learn a new chorus: &#8220;I Am the God that Healeth Thee,&#8221; by Don Moen. With a certain flourish, he pressed the PLAY button on the tape deck &#8230; suddenly, the velvet-like tones of Dean Martin filled the sanctuary with &#8220;When the moon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1600,2096],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}